{"id":130907,"date":"2026-01-20T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/130907\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:26:08","slug":"52-year-old-rockport-driver-killed-in-single-vehicle-crash-monday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/130907\/","title":{"rendered":"52-year-old Rockport driver killed in single-vehicle crash Monday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREGORY, Texas \u2014 A 52-year-old Rockport man died Monday afternoon after his vintage jeep crashed on Corpus Christi Street.<\/p>\n<p>Juanito Garcia Jr. was driving a 1959 Willie&#8217;s Overland Jeepster westbound in the 300 block of Corpus Christi Street around 1:23 p.m. when the vehicle left the roadway, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>The jeep struck an elevated portion of a ditch with its front end.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia was unresponsive when emergency medical services arrived at the scene. He was transported to the Rockport 24\/7 Emergency Room, where he was pronounced dead at 2:24 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Justice of Peace Precinct 2 Judge Diana McGinnes pronounced Garcia deceased.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation by troopers from the Highway Patrol Office in Sinton.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREGORY, Texas \u2014 A 52-year-old Rockport man died Monday afternoon after his vintage jeep crashed on Corpus Christi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,18611],"class_list":{"0":"post-130907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-gregory-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}